What did YOU do today?

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Your level of optimism is an inspiration to us all

Oh I know I was being really generous with that. Not so much optimist. More generous. Fridge temperature is probably more accurate.

 

[sgtsandman]

It's not just ford.

I had a Honda dealer tell me they couldn't tell what kind of battery was in a Honda civic without the VIN, absolutely 100% impossible to know.

"Can I just have the same battery as I have here, it's the original battery."

"We have no way to look up what the part number for this is"

"What about the part number on the battery?"

"we just don't have any way to check that, we need the VIN"


"Great, thanks anyway."


Off I went to the auto parts warehouse around the corner to buy a replacement battery without the VIN.

I had one change the rear lower control arms because the bushings were bad. It was under warranty, so if they wanted to do the extra work instead of replacing the bushings, no skin off my nose. When you do that job, you have to disconnect the brake lines because of how the suspension and braking system is designed. They never bled the brakes after installing the new control arms. It was late in the evening when I picked up and drove it home and I had to work the next morning. So, I bled the brakes myself, on ramps, in the driveway, with a torpedo heater pointed under the vehicle because it was F^&*ing cold. The person who called later for a customer satisfaction survey regretted making the call. The same with the manager that called later to follow up. I never used that service department again.

 

[JoshT]

Already covered it in another thread, a lot more long winded than this one, but today I messed up again...

Doing a partial rebuild on my car's front end. New CV axles, wheel bearings, and brakes. Basically throwing the buckzooka at it to get rid of a persistant squeel when in motion, and replacing the CV axles while in there since a boot was bad.

I started teardown a week ago. First time doing wheel bearings on a car like this. It's got a single bearing that presses into the knuckle from the inside, then the hub into the bearing from the outside, then once installed the CV stub shaft kind of holds it all together. Not really possible to remove the hub without destroying the bearing. One if the inner races stays stuck to the hub and not practical to try to remove it. When you take it apart you're pretty much replacing both. Read that before starting, but my first time seeing how it all comes apart first hand.

All went well on disassembly. Got the knuckle assemblies broke down. In process of reassembling the first and pressing the new hub in something felt funny. Turns out I Was pressing in the wrong spond and trashed that bearing. Strike one bearing and hub set. Knew what I was doing and the second went well. Went home and ordered more new parts to try again, then out of comission (for shop work) for the rest of the week due to medical.

FF to this afternoon. Didn't sleep much last night and should have just went home after work, but I want to get this thing back together. Got the messed up hub broken back down. New bearing smoothly presses right into the knuckle. Get the new hub pressed in about half way and realized I made a mistake. The disc brake dust shield is still sitting on top of the tool box, it has to go on between installing the hub and bearing. OOPS! Only way to install it now is remove the hub, and removing the hub is going to ruin the bearing and possibly the hub too.

I put everything down for the afternoon and went home. Hopefully by the time I get off work tomorrow I'll decide how to proceed.

A) Continue pressing hub in, forget shield until next time, and finish in a few evenings.

B) Order another new hub and bearing from RA for $60 (same as previous sets) and wait another 1-2 weeks to finish.

C) Buy another new bearing and hub locally for $130 and finish this weekend. (I've only got $120 total into the two sets I messed up for same brand parts.)

Worst that is likely to happen from not reinstalling the shield is premature wear on the bearing. If I take it back apart now I definitely destroy bearing. Leaning towards plan A, get what life I can out of the bearing and fix it next time. That is if there is a next time, it is a 200k mile Kia.

 

[Rick W]

Already covered it in another thread, a lot more long winded than this one, but today I messed up again...

Doing a partial rebuild on my car's front end. New CV axles, wheel bearings, and brakes. Basically throwing the buckzooka at it to get rid of a persistant squeel when in motion, and replacing the CV axles while in there since a boot was bad.

I started teardown a week ago. First time doing wheel bearings on a car like this. It's got a single bearing that presses into the knuckle from the inside, then the hub into the bearing from the outside, then once installed the CV stub shaft kind of holds it all together. Not really possible to remove the hub without destroying the bearing. One if the inner races stays stuck to the hub and not practical to try to remove it. When you take it apart you're pretty much replacing both. Read that before starting, but my first time seeing how it all comes apart first hand.

All went well on disassembly. Got the knuckle assemblies broke down. In process of reassembling the first and pressing the new hub in something felt funny. Turns out I Was pressing in the wrong spond and trashed that bearing. Strike one bearing and hub set. Knew what I was doing and the second went well. Went home and ordered more new parts to try again, then out of comission (for shop work) for the rest of the week due to medical.

FF to this afternoon. Didn't sleep much last night and should have just went home after work, but I want to get this thing back together. Got the messed up hub broken back down. New bearing smoothly presses right into the knuckle. Get the new hub pressed in about half way and realized I made a mistake. The disc brake dust shield is still sitting on top of the tool box, it has to go on between installing the hub and bearing. OOPS! Only way to install it now is remove the hub, and removing the hub is going to ruin the bearing and possibly the hub too.

I put everything down for the afternoon and went home. Hopefully by the time I get off work tomorrow I'll decide how to proceed.

A) Continue pressing hub in, forget shield until next time, and finish in a few evenings.

B) Order another new hub and bearing from RA for $60 (same as previous sets) and wait another 1-2 weeks to finish.

C) Buy another new bearing and hub locally for $130 and finish this weekend. (I've only got $120 total into the two sets I messed up for same brand parts.)

Worst that is likely to happen from not reinstalling the shield is premature wear on the bearing. If I take it back apart now I definitely destroy bearing. Leaning towards plan A, get what life I can out of the bearing and fix it next time. That is if there is a next time, it is a 200k mile Kia.

Can you slot cut the shield and work it around the assembly? Just a thought.

 

[JoshT]

Can you slot cut the shield and work it around the assembly? Just a thought.

Not the way this one is made. Creating a slot that would fit would leave a large enough gap in the protection that it would defeat the purpose of having the shield. If I wanted to take a few day completely reengineer the shield with a removable section I could probably do it, but that isn't a reasonable option and could cause problems if that section it wanted to yeet itself going down the road.

Only viable options are tear it down and replace everything again, or run without.


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EDIT: More detail...

Here's the brake shield or one very similar to it. There is a raised lip around the center portion that cups and encircles the bearing 360°. That lip prevents any chance of being able to slit it and slip it in. Both in space available to work and the shape preventing flexability.

To squeeze it in with the hub as is I'd have to cut out and remove this whole portion.

That would remove 1/3 of the protection for the bearing. It's also decrease regidity of the piece (probably wouldn't matter much), and be open at the location where debris is most likely to enter since there is no other shield there and it's open around the caliper. Since the front calipers sit forward and slightly high of center, it would probably give a perfect path for debris to enter that space and get trapped. IMO without the remain 2/3 of the bearing shield there, any debris that enter will have a better chance of falling back out instead of being trapped.